How YOU Can Help Protect Hawai`i’s Blue Water… GET INVOLVED!!!

Under the Blue Water Campaign:
Volunteer to be a Blue Water Response Team member
Help the Campaign in outreach and training events
Spread the word to family and friends about the Blue Water Campaign
Volunteer general hours with the Campaign (in the office, with materials, website, etc.)
* Contribute to the Blue Water Campaign

* Join the Sierra Club… Click here to join online.

In your everyday life:
Learn about the issues that affect our environment

Remember that our land and ocean are connected - everything eventually flows downstream to the ocean

Practice environmental stewardship in your everyday life
- Throw your trash where it belongs

- Recycle, reduce, reuse

- Dispose of soap, oil, etc. in the proper way; prevent chemicals and pollutants from going down the storm drain

- Plant trees and grass - they act as filters for storm water (unlike concrete)

- Use less fertilizer - instead use mulch or compost which you can make, or purchase

- If you live on or near the water, plant a buffer zone of trees, shrubs and grass to help filter any runoff

- Rake up grass clippings and sweep up driveways and sidewalks instead of waiting for the rain to wash it into the storm drain - Remember it all empties into our ocean!

- Avoid the spilling of harmful chemicals and pollutants onto the ground (ex. gas, car fluids and oil, etc.) - they will be washed into our storm drains and taken out to our oceans with the next big rain

Report environmental violations to the proper regulatory agencies - CLICK HERE for contact information

Help pass new environmental legislation by submitting testimony

Spread the word to family and friends

Volunteer your time with environmental groups:

- marine debris cleanups: Kai Makana, “Get the Drift and Bag It!”, Sierra Club, etc.
- water quality testing: Surfrider Foundation, Kai Makana, State Dept. of Health, etc.
- reef surveys: Reef Check, etc.
- fish counts: REEF Project, etc.
- invasive species removal: Island Invasive Species Committees, Sierra Club’s Hawaii Service Trip Program, etc.
- trail maintenance: Sierra Club, Na Ala Hele, etc.
- (re-)planting native hawaiian plants: Sierra Club, etc.

Learn about Hawai`i’s environmental issues. It’s only when we understand what is going on, that we can help make it better. After all, we are “lucky we live Hawai`i”… Let’s all help keep it that way.